The Myth of Zero Cost Business Idea

[Jasmine]

Technically speaking, there are a lot of business models that can be started with zero cost. For instance, you can sell your old ideas for free on Facebook Marketplace. If you do not consider this a proper business models, you can try businesses like Print-on-demand, dropshipping, or affiliate marketing for free. But do you actually generate sales through these business models without spending any money on business development or marketing. If you already have a huge audience, you might generate sales through these free business models, however, if you don’t have audience, you can generate sales only by spending money to build audience, or spend money to run ads.

Therefore, in practical point of view, if you are starting a no-cost or low-cost business, you should be ready to spend money on marketing and advertising.

You can start a print-on-demand on Amazon or Redbubble for free, but it will be very difficult to generate sales without spending money on marketing and advertising.

 

[Mika]

You don't need money to start on Amazon or Redbubble, however, if you want to use Printify or Printful, you will have to integrate with your own website or a third-party eCommerce site like Etsy. You need money to build a website, and you also need money to list your products on Etsy. Establishing a business on Etsy is low cost because you pay just 20 cents fees, and rest of the charges are only after generating sales. Nevertheless, you might have to spend at least $100 for running Etsy ads. Of course, you can try organic method like SEO and free marketing on social sites, but you need a lot of patience to generate sales through these methods. How long can you wait to make that first sale? It might even take a year before you generate sales. Once you have your first sale, still there is no guarantee that you will genenare another sale.

 

[saoussen5765]

First of all Facebook Marketplace is limited for some countries. In addition half of buyers restricts countries means it is not good for selling for everywhere due to these restrictions.